The new playground at Freeman Field Recreational Complex in Seymour is now open.
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One of the unique features of the new playground at Freeman Field Recreational Complex in Seymour is shown.
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A slide is part of the new playground equipment at Freeman Field Recreational Complex in Seymour.
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Swings are among the new playground equipment at Freeman Field Recreational Complex in Seymour.
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Musical equipment is part of the new playground at Freeman Field Recreational Complex in Seymour.
Courtesy of Seymour Parks and Recreation Department
A slide, swings, musical equipment and poured-in-place flooring are among the features of Seymour’s newest playground.
The Seymour Parks and Recreation Department recently announced on its Facebook page that the project was completed at Freeman Field Recreational Complex on the far south side of the city.
Program Director Chad Keithley also shared that news with the department’s board during a recent meeting.
“There is some light dirt work that we have to do out and around it, but with the weather and the rain and all that, that will come with time,” he said.
While the playground is ready for people to use, the department advises them to be cautious as landscaping work still needs to be done.
Crews with PlayPros also have begun work on new playgrounds at Gaiser and Westide parks.
“They’ve got some of the equipment installed at Gaiser,” Keithley said.
But there was a little bit of a hiccup, he said.
“The musical equipment was going to be installed in the grass area, and that wasn’t the initial proposal from The Arc of Jackson County,” he said of the expansion of the handicap-accessible playground.
“Instead of The Arc having to pay an additional $7,000 for the poured-in-placed extra to be poured where the clients can actually use the musical equipment on the poured-in-place system instead of the grass, PlayPros is covering $3,500 of it and The Arc is going to cover the other $3,500,” he said.
Once work at Gaiser Park is completed, the crew will move to Kasting Park for installation of equipment.
At Westside Park, a crew recently was there starting the layout of the new playground.
Keithley said the playgrounds should be finished soon, but he’s unsure if the poured-in-place flooring will be installed this year because of the weather.
“You have to have at least 50-degree temperature in order for it to be installed,” he said. “It may be the first of next year around March before they can come back and get the poured-in-place installed.”
All of the new equipment was made possible with Indiana Department of Health grant money through Schneck Medical Center and Healthy Jackson County.